{"id":2009998,"date":"2023-08-23T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T01:18:56","slug":"russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian warlord Prigozhin, who attempted to overthrow Putin, reportedly killed in plane crash."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009998&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Plane Carrying Notorious Russian Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin Crashes<\/h2>\n<p>A \u2062plane carrying notorious Russian warlord\u2064 Yevgeny Prigozhin, who launched a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin over the \u200bsummer, reportedly crashed\u2063 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Russian government said that\u200b all 10\u200b people\u200c on the\u2064 plane, including \u200dits \u200bcrew members, died in the crash, according to\u200d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/812c9da3-80f2-4fe1-8fad-0b4441d1977a\">report<\/a> \u200bfrom The Financial Times.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Russian\u2064 Federal Air Transport\u2062 Agency\u200d has\u200b announced that \u200ban Investigation has\u200b been\u2063 launched to determine the \u201cCause\u201d of \u2062the Aircraft Crash in the Tver Region \u200dwhich Killed all \u206410 Passengers onboard including Yevgeny Prigozhin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kguZWO4lr\">pic.twitter.com\/1kguZWO4lr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2062OSINTdefender \u200b(@sentdefender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sentdefender\/status\/1694396997870993873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u206423, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Prigozhin&#8217;s Controversial Background<\/h3>\n<p>Prigozhin,\u2064 the now-former owner of Russia\u2019s notorious\u200d Wagner\u2064 paramilitary\u2063 group, an\u2063 organization\u200c that is designated as a Transnational Criminal Organization \u2062and \u2062is frequently accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-biden-should-back-referring-accused-israeli-officials-to-international-criminal-court\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar: Biden Should Back Referring Accused Israeli Officials To International Criminal Court\">committing war crimes<\/a>, tried to overthrow the Russian government \u200dback in June over what\u2063 he claimed was an\u200c effort by top \u200cmilitary\u2063 officials to \u2063effectively sabotage Wagner\u2019s fighting \u2062in\u200c Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin served \u2063nearly a decade in prison after being convicted \u2062of\u2064 &#8220;assault, robbery,\u200d and fraud&#8221; in 1981, according \u200bto Insider. After being released from prison, he made his living selling hot dogs on street corners\u200d and eventually started a\u2064 catering business, where he eventually met Russian President Vladimir\u200c Putin \u2014 then \u2062a low-level government official.<\/p>\n<p>His company, Concord Catering, in the mid-to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash\/\" title=\"Russian warlord Prigozhin, who attempted to overthrow Putin, reportedly killed in plane crash.\">-late 1990s started \u200breceiving contracts<\/a> from the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>According \u2062to a Wall Street Journal documentary, the Russian \u200dgovernment laundered money\u200c to Prigozhin through his catering company, which \u2063he\u200c eventually used to start Wagner \u2014 initially a small group \u200cof only a few hundred former Russian soldiers that were hired to do Russia\u2019s bidding in \u2062Ukraine in\u200d 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Having Wagner do Russia\u2019s bidding \u200bgave the\u2062 Russian\u200d government plausible\u200d deniability as \u2062the group engaged in \u200cdirty work. \u200bRussian government contracts to Concord Catering \u200dhave reportedly been estimated \u200bto be well into the\u2063 billions of\u2062 dollars.<\/p>\n<h3>Wagner&#8217;s \u200dActivities and Connections<\/h3>\n<p>An expert on Wagner told \u200dThe Wall Street\u200d Journal\u2062 that it is best to think \u2062of the \u200cgroup as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-are-yevgeny-prigozhin-and-wagner\/\" title=\"Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner?\">state-backed paramilitary cartel<\/a>.&#8221; The \u2064group\u2063 is accused of massacring and raping civilians and exploiting natural resources in\u2062 poor countries with dire security situations. \u2063The resources \u2014 commodities \u200blike gold, oil, and gas \u200b\u2014 go back \u200cto the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d group operates in South America, Africa, the Middle\u200d East, \u200bAsia, \u2062and\u200c Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal said that it identified 64 companies that\u2064 are linked to Wagner\u2063 that are used as front companies to move money and assets.\u2062 The report said that the Kremlin is connected to all\u200b of it.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Wagner troops faced off against U.S. forces in Syria \u2064during the Trump administration and were thoroughly decimated in a matter\u2064 of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Prigozhin is also in\u2062 charge of numerous other companies, including the Internet Research Agency, which was accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have interfered, we \u2062are interfering, and we will continue to interfere,&#8221; Prigozhin \u200csaid the day before 2022\u2019s midterm elections. &#8220;Carefully, accurately, surgically,\u200c and in\u200c our own way, as we know how \u200bto \u200cdo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page \u200cfor updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane, carrying Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, crashed, killing all 10 people on board, including the crew. Prigozhin had attempted a coup against President Putin. 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